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When your system would rather make money from your treatment of stage 4 cancer than benefit from a healthy and cured stage 1 cancer survivor. I’m happy my taxe
by cced 6y ago
When your system would rather make money from your treatment of stage 4 cancer than benefit from a healthy and cured stage 1 cancer survivor.
I’m happy my taxes go towards helping people get out of stage 1 than seeing people live their final days in stage 4.
- xtracto 6y agoExactly, that's one reason why government paid social health care is aligned with this: The government benefits from doing prevention programmes as it is cheaper than late treatment. Germany had all kind of preventative help/medicine when I lived there.
- refurb 6y agoWhy would a private insurer not have the same incentive? Collect full premiums, but overall lower costs with early detection and treatment?
- Gibbon1 6y agoThe US system hopes that people get untreatable stage 4 cancer and die quickly.
- spaetzleesser 6y agoMaybe the insurers. Hospitals prefer treating them in the most expensive way.
- Gibbon1 6y agoHeard the Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF say they make most of their money on elective procedures.